40% Ukrainians may seek humanitarian aid this year – UN report
Фото: Організація Об'єднаних Націй в Україні
The UN report says over 14 million Ukrainian, which equals 40% of the state's population, will need humanitarian assistance in 2024.
The war has also forced about 6.3 million Ukrainians to move abroad.
The UN states that after the full-scale war, people have experienced almost two years of unrelenting fighting, while "civilians are being killed and injured every day, and their homes and critical infrastructure are being destroyed."
The first week of January brought Ukraine a wave of massive air attacks that began on December 29 and continues to this day.
"On January 2, humanitarian organizations in the capital Kyiv counted more than 30 explosions in the city alone.
Kharkiv in the east also came under attack, with at least five civilian casualties reported and 130 people injured that day..
On the weekend – without a break. On January 6, another wave of air strikes in Donetsk region killed about a dozen civilians, five of them children."
Families across Ukraine celebrated the New Year with air raid sirens blaring, in underground shelters and subway stations, or in the basements of their homes.
The UN has described in detail all of Russia's strikes on Ukraine.
On January 15, Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths and High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi will present UN-coordinated plans to save lives and address the suffering caused by the emergency.
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has documented gross violations of international law, including human rights, humanitarian law and war crimes by Russian forces.
Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale armed attack on Ukraine in 2022, at least 10,000 civilian deaths have been recorded, more than 560 of them children, and more than 18,500 civilians have been injured.
